“I like the sweet life and the silence, but it’s the storm that I believe in.” I could launch into a long monologue about the Eternal Feminine right now, but I’m not going to subject you to that. It’s a beautiful, breezy Monday in Amman, I’m going to Ukraine at the end of the week,Continue reading “Monday Music: the If You Want Me, I’m Your Country edition”
Monthly Archives: July 2009
No post today
The Jesus Christ acapella reprisal is filling in for me: I have no idea what’s going on here. I just know I’m in love with it. In a way that’s possibly disturbing. Also, Boyfriend recently discovered this video that reminded him of his childhood: I really need to have more space-traveling dinosaurs in my stories,Continue reading “No post today”
Happy 4th of July, let’s break out the mansaf
… Or at least that’s what we did. Because we’re cool like that. Mansaf – Jordanian national dish. Comes with a sauce you can drink out of a glass, if you want. Which I did. Even in the heat. I wish I was home, though. Watching the fireworks. Few things better than fireworks on aContinue reading “Happy 4th of July, let’s break out the mansaf”
“…no girls interested in Trek before this new movie”
I shit you not, my fair friends, someone has actually posted the line above. I had a sarcastic response lined up, and then I thought, why bother? Why bother with someone who’s invested in the idea that Star Trek belongs to a noble subculture of dudely doodz whose responses to it are so much moreContinue reading ““…no girls interested in Trek before this new movie””
Something that stopped me dead while reading Zoë Heller’s “The Believers”
‘Only ideas are perfect. People never are,’ Joel would tell her. ‘When you’ve lived a bit longer, you’ll be more forgiving.’ But Rosa had scorned these attempts to modify her wrath. For a person as deeply offended by injustice and inequity as she was – as committed to changing the world – a degree ofContinue reading “Something that stopped me dead while reading Zoë Heller’s “The Believers””
Natalia A. 